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Date Sent: 2012-12-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 4, 2012 AM edition |
GOP serves up $800 billion in new taxes -- NATO to agree to send Patriots to Turkey: diplomats
Former Obama drug policy adviser ‘can’t imagine’ feds allowing marijuana legalization -- Few Places to Hide as Taxes Trend Higher Worldwide -- Couple faces $97K in fines for using their own driveway -- Punishing the Paulians -- Staples stores to offer custom 3D printing -- Why to Say No to Susan Rice - by Ray McGovern -- FYI: What Do Forensic Chemists Do, And Why Would They Cheat? -- Curiosity Rover Finds Simple Organics, But Long Path Remains to Determine Life -- Will a Secret Private Manned Mission to the Moon Be Announced This Week? -- Exclusive: U.S. Sees Syria Prepping Chemical Weapons for Possible Attack -- Cops demand that Congress force telecoms to archive all text messages -- How to Fix the Economy for Dummies -- UK Uncut Claims Victory as Starbucks Begins to Crack on Tax Avoidance -- Happening Now: Tar Sands Activists Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL -- What's a Real Libertarian? -- Kabul Bank Shows Us Afghan War is for Control Not Resources -- Contrived Chaos in Egypt as IMF Considers Withdrawal of $5 Billion -- Headed Toward the 11th Hour Compromise - by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul -- A Substance Called Carbomorph Is The Key To 3-D Printing Entire Electronic Gadgets
AZ: Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th,
2012, 6:30 p.m. til ???; America's First Monument to the Bill
of Rights - Arizona Dedication Ceremony, Saturday
December 15th 10:00 am; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards,
Patriot Roast & Fundraiser Saturday December 15th 6:00 pm -
10:00 pm
Scott Beiser needs his friends - Wife E.J. Passess
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
GOP serves up $800 billion in new taxes
12-03-2012
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Washington Post
House Republican leaders endorsed a far-reaching plan Monday to rein in the national debt that would raise $800 billion in new tax revenue, slice $600 billion from federal health programs and apply a stingier measure of inflation to Social Security b
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News Link • NATO
NATO to agree to send Patriots to Turkey: diplomats
12-03-2012
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Reuters
NATO foreign ministers will agree on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to beef up Turkey's air defences and calm Turkey's fears that it could come under missile attack, possibly with chemical weapons, from Syria, diplomats said.
Turkey last month a
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News Link • Drug War
Former drug policy adviser ‘can’t imagine’ feds allowing marijuana legalization
12-03-2012
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Rawstory
Kevin Sabet, who served as a senior drug policy adviser in the Obama administration, said it was unlikely the federal government would allow states to legalize marijuana. “I think the administration has been very clear and the president has been very
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Few Places to Hide as Taxes Trend Higher Worldwide
12-03-2012
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New York Times
Taxes on earnings, investment income, sales and a few other things have gone up already in many countries, and further increases are possible, including a huge one in the United States.
Another source of unease and doubt for taxpayers is a trend
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News Link • Eminent Domain
Couple faces $97K in fines for using their own driveway
12-03-2012
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The Grays obtained permission from a Clearcreek to use their residential driveway to get to buildings on the Montgomery County portion of their land. The buildings house the Grays’ storage and landscaping businesses. But following complaints from nei
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars rover Curiosity finds organic compounds, not life
12-03-2012
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Washington Post
The Curiosity Mars rover has discovered something interesting in a scoop of ruddy sand, but NASA scientists say they’re not quite sure what it means. Such compounds are of the type that, in some cases, indicate microbes in the soil.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Punishing the Paulians
12-03-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
"According to a source, Schweikert was told that he was ousted in part because his 'votes were "not in lockstep with leadership." Goose-step is more like it.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Oh, the Irony!
12-03-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
The Federal Register quietly advises that "TSA also is creating and maintaining a watch list of individuals who are disqualified from eligibility from TSA PreCheck. Anyone it rejects winds up on another of the police-state’s watchlists,
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Gourmet vending machine dispenses fresh caviar and escargot (for a price)
12-03-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Jonathan Fincher
Beverly Hills Caviar has installed vending machines in several Los Angeles malls that dispense caviar, escargot, and other gourmet foods
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Opinion • Libya
Ray McGovern: My Take
Why to Say No to Susan Rice
12-03-2012
Ray McGovern
Key Republicans object to Susan Rice getting a promotion from UN ambassador to Secretary of State, citing her flawed account of the Benghazi assault. But a more legitimate concern is her lack of judgment on the Iraq War and other foreign policy decis
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News Link • Transportation
ELF velomobile is powered by you and the Sun
12-03-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
The ELF is a pedal/electric velomobile, that can be charged using a built-in photovoltaic panel
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FYI: What Do Forensic Chemists Do, And Why Would They Cheat?
12-03-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Krislyn Placide
A forensic chemist at a Massachusetts crime lab was arrested for tampering with drug evidence recently. A bad egg or the product of perverse incentives?
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Curiosity Rover Finds Simple Organics, But Long Path Remains to Determine Life
12-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
In its first analysis of Martian soil, NASA’s Curiosity rover detected perchlorate salts and simple organic compounds but the probe’s science team can not yet determine if the carbon in these materials is indigenous to Mars.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Will a Secret Private Manned Mission to the Moon Be Announced This Week?
12-03-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
Internet rumors have been swirling for several weeks of a secret venture backed by private entrepreneurs that would return people to the moon’s surface. It seems that the veil will finally be lifted this week, during a press conference in Washington,
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News Link • Syria
Exclusive: U.S. Sees Syria Prepping Chemical Weapons for Possible Attack
12-03-2012
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By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman
Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas, an American official with knowledge of the situation tells Danger Room.
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News Link • China
The Chinese Solar Machine
12-03-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin Bullis
Chinese manufacturers have dominated the international market for conventional solar panels by building bigger factories faster. Now they will need to innovate to maintain their lead.
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News Link • Surveillance
Cops demand that Congress force telecoms to archive all text messages
12-03-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
US cell phone service providers could be required to log personal text messages for upwards of two years if a proposal submitted by a group of law enforcement professionals can successfully plead with Congress.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How to Fix the Economy for Dummies
12-03-2012
Step 1: 'Bank Loan'; Step 2: 'Borrower Defaults on Bank Loan'; Step 3: Repeat Steps 1 & 2 until: either the economy is fixed, or Banks default which ever comes first. [Run Simulation]
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News Link • Economy - International
UK Uncut Claims Victory as Starbucks Begins to Crack on Tax Avoidance
12-03-2012
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Common Dreams
Multinational firms like Google, Amazon, and Starbucks are coming under new pressure in the UK to pay their fair of corporate taxes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Happening Now: Tar Sands Activists Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL
12-03-2012
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Common Dreams
Another act in Tar Sands Blockade's ceaseless fight against TransCanada's pipeline
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News Link • Afghanistan
Kabul Bank Shows Us Afghan War is for Control Not Resources
12-03-2012
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The Daily Bell
Report brands Kabul Bank a fraud ...
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News Link • Egypt
Contrived Chaos in Egypt as IMF Considers Withdrawal of US$5 Billion
12-03-2012
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The Daily Bell
Mursi crisis leaves Egypt's economic plan, IMF deal hanging in the balance ...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Forbidden to Mention Foreign Currency in Ukraine Now
12-03-2012
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The Daily Bell
Use of foreign currency in the advertising is forbidden in Ukraine ... Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to Article 8 of the Law "On Advertising".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Is Michelle Obama’s “natural food” campaign designed to hide the White House attack on organic food?
12-03-2012
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Farm Wars
The impression is unmistakable: the White house stands for “healthy eating.” But meanwhile, Obama is destroying true natural food. The details are undeniable.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
A Substance Called Carbomorph Is The Key To 3-D Printing Entire Electronic Gadgets
12-03-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
University of Warwick researchers have developed a new material that is conductive, piezoresistant, and printable in the latest generation of consumer 3-D printers.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
MIT Researchers Create The Swiss Army Knife Of The Robotics World
12-03-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Krislyn Placide
While engineering programmable matter, they also invented a motor that holds its position without power.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"Killing Them Softly": A Hitman Movie"That's Actually About the Financial Crash
12-02-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Asawin Suebsaeng
Along with Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, Killing Them Softly is so far the best Great Recession movie to emerge out of the film industry.
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News Link • Food
Study: Corn ethanol may cost foodservice $3.2B a year
11-30-2012
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Paul Frumkin, NRN
The federal government’s policy of fostering the use of corn " the chief ingredient in U.S. livestock feed " as a source for ethanol in gasoline is artificially inflating corn prices and thereby driving other food chain commodity costs upward.
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News Link • Mexico
New Mexican president sworn in amid violent protests (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Protesters clashed with police outside the Mexican Congress in Mexico City on Saturday, as the country’s new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, took the oath of office.
Hundreds of demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails, firecrackers and rocks at secur
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Healthcare
The Fiscal Cliff About To Expose Another Medicare Scam
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Why would the fiscal cliff mean that doctors would suddenly take a thirty percent cut in their billing? Nothing was said about that last year when the deal was made. Part of the problem is that deal wasn’t made last year. It was made fifteen years ag
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Social Security
Is Fedzilla About to Pull Off a $3.5 Trillion Private Pension Heist?
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The alternate media and blogosphere are buzzing with very disturbing stories about how the government intends to steal/seize private retirement accounts.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Goose that Laid the Federal Reserve Note
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This newly discovered, expanded version of Aesop’s most famous fable bears an eerie resemblance to the modern day and sheds new light on its tragic moral.
One day a countryman checking his goose’s nest found there an egg all green and flattened. W
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News Link • TERRORISM
The Government Can Still Black Bag Any American
11-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Congressman Amash points out, the wording of the amendment effectively codifies tyranny: "An authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or
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News Link • Israel
Why Is The US Building A Secret $100 Million Underground Facility Outside Tel Aviv?
11-30-2012
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Business Insider
Leave it to legendary Walter Pincus from the Washington Post to flesh out a Request for Proposal construction project planned for Israel called Site 911. The oddly named project will cost up to $100 million, take more than 2 years to complete,
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Drone crashes mount at civilian airports
11-30-2012
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Washington Post
The pilot of the unarmed MQ-9 Reaper drone took off without permission from the control tower. One minute later, he yanked the wrong lever at his console, killing the engine without realizing why. As he tried to make an emergency landing, he forgot t
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News Link • History
Code used by RI founding father is finally cracked
11-30-2012
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AP
20 pages of Williams’ original thoughts on one of the major theological issues of the day: infant baptism. Williams also weighed in on the conversion of Native Americans, implying it was being achieved through treachery and coercion,
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Albany County Sheriff’s Office Comes out Shining in Viral Youtube TSA Video
11-30-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Another key moment is when Myers asks Lenic to get their names, winking at the detective to do him the favor, but Lenic refused, saying he had no authority to do that because they were not suspected of a crime. “If I was to ask for his identification
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News Link • Gun Rights
More than 100 AK-47's stolen from Atlanta train car
11-30-2012
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AP
More than 100 rifles were stolen from a train in metro Atlanta. After receiving a tip about the incident, Channel 2 Action News confirmed Thursday that 120 rifles were stolen from a CSX cargo container.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 2, 2012 Edition
11-30-2012
John Semmens
President's Laughable Fiscal Plan Called “Will of the People”
So-called negotiations to avert going over the “fiscal cliff” got off to an unpromising start when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's presentation of President Obama's “plan” generat
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News Link • Obama Administration
For the First Time, Obama Official Sketches Out End to War on Terror
11-30-2012
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Wired.com
Neither the George W. Bush nor Barack Obama White House ever laid out a vision for what an end to the war on terrorism would actually look like.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Judge Gives Bradley Manning Permission to Plead Guilty for WikiLeaks Dumps
11-30-2012
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Wired.com
A military judge in Maryland has accepted the terms under which alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning has proposed to plead guilty.
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